Berkeley Voices

114: Theater as power: New professor brings Caribbean performance practice to Berkeley


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UC Berkeley's first social justice theater professor, Timmia Hearn DeRoy, talks about how Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival practice, rooted in emancipation, drives her work today.

"Trinidadian Carnival, it’s social justice theater in practice. Every moment, it’s all about emancipation, the subverting of the powerful narrative through humor, through performance, through doublespeak. And it just taught me so much about the possibilities of the art form."

Photo courtesy of Timmia Hearn DeRoy.

Music by Blue Dot Sessions.

Listen to the episode, read the transcript and see photos on Berkeley News (news.berkeley.edu): https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/10/17/social-justice-theater

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